Last name: Paredaens
First name: Jan
Date of birth:
Place of birth: Antwerp, Belgium
Home Town: Eleweyt, Belgium
Nationality: Belgian
- Full professor at the University of Antwerp since 1979
- Since 1985, scientific advisor at the Technical University of Eindhoven
- Parttime Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven since 1999
- Author of several books in computer science, two of which are edited by Springer-Verlag
- Organised ICALP 1984 and ICDT 1988
- PC Chairman of PODS 1998
- Chair of the Council of the International Conferences on Database Theory (ICDT), from 1998 till 2002
- He has been member of numerous program committees of international conferences and he has
been invited speaker at different occasions
- Author of publications in the areas of automata theory, semantics of programming languages,
relational database model, nested relational model, deductive databases and object-oriented databases
- Head of ADReM, the Database Research Group of the University of Antwerp
- Involved in many national and international R&D projects with many
international scientific contacts, e.g. with the Indiana University (USA),
Politecnico di Milano, TU Eindhoven, etc.
- Recent research activities include the development, design and implementation of XML-database languages,
the expressive power of these languages, and the design of ergonomic user interfaces for such languages
with a focus on the fundamental aspects in these areas
- FoIKS 2010 : A Simple but Formal Semantics for XML Manipulation Languages
- BDA 2009 : Query and Transformation Languages for XML
- SEBD 2008 : About X (ML | Path | Query | SLT)
- SACLA Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 1999 "User Interfaces for Database Systems"
- Sixth
International Workshop on Database Programming Languages, DBPL97, Estes
Park, Colorado, USA, 1997 "Euclid, Tarski and Engeler Encompassed"
- Fifth
International Workshop on Database Programming Languages, DBPL95,
Gubio, Italy, 1995 Tutorial: "Data Models in Spatial Databases"
- Fifth International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT95, Prague, Chechoslovakia, 1995 "Spatial Databases, the Final Frontier"
- Dixiemes Journees des Bases de Donnees Avancees, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1994
"On the Foundations of Spatial Databases"
- CISM, Centre International des Sciences Mecaniques, Udine, Italy, 1993 Tutorial: "Foundations of Database Systems"
- Ninth IEEE Data Engineering Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1993 Tutorial: "Foundations of Object Oriented Database Languages"
- Seventh International Meeting of Young Computer Scientists, Smolenice, Chechoslovakia, 1992 "Generic Database Transformations"
- Fourth GI-Workshop, Grundlagen von Datenbanken, Barsinghausen, Germany, 1992
"The Realm of Generic Transformations in Database Theory"
Member of National Committees
- Chairman of the commission 'Informatica en Kennistechnologie', Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, FWO, 1997-1998
- Member of the commission 'Informatica en Kennistechnologie',Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, FWO, 1987-1998
- Member of the commission 'IBM-Prijs', Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, FWO, 1984-1999
Chairman of PC of International Conferences
- Chair of the Executive Committee of PODS, from 2008 till 2010
- Member of the Executive Committee of PODS, from 2010 till 2014
- Member of the Executive Committee of SIGMOD, from 2008 till 2010
- Chair of the Council of the International Conferences on Database Theory, from 1998 till 2002
- Member of the Steering Committee of PODS, ACM, Principles of Database Systems, 1997-2000
- PODS98, 17th Conference on Principles of Database Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1998
- ICDT88, Second International Conference on Database Theory, Bruges, Belgium, 1988
- ICALP84, 11th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Antwerp, Belgium, 1984
Member of PC of International Conferences
- SIGMOD, Paris, 2004
- Workshop on Database schema evolution and meta-modeling, Dagstuhl, Germany, September 2000
- International Workshop on Advanced Spatial Data Management, 11th DEXA, Greenwich, UK, September 2000
- COMAD'2000, International Conference on Management of Data, Pune, India, December 2000
- SDD'99, Sixth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases, Hongkong, China, 1999
- CSL98, Computer Science Logic, Brno, Czech Republic, 1998
- VLDB97, International Conference on Very Large Databases, Athens, Greece, 1997
- CDB97, Second International Workshop on Constraint Database Systems, Delphi, Greece, 1997
- VLDB96, International Conference on Very Large Databases, Bombay, India, 1996
- VDB95, Third Working Conference on Visual Database Systems, IFIP, Lausanne, Switserland, 1995
- CDB95, First International Workshop on Constraint Database Systems, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 1995
- AVI94, Second International Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Bari, Italy, 1994
- DOOD93,Third International Conference on Deductive and Object Oriented Databases, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 1993
- PODS93, 12th Conference on Principles of Database Systems, Washington D.C. 1993
- ICDT92, Fourth International Conference on Database Theory, Berlin, Germany, 1992
- Fourth International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects,Volkse, Germany, 1992
- DOOD91, Second International Conference on Deductive and Object Oriented Databases, Munich, Germany, 1991
- Third International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects, Aigen, Austria, 1991
- MFDBS91, Third Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems, Rostock, East-Germany, 1991
- Second International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects, Aigen, Austria, 1990
- VLDB90, International Conference on Very Large Databases, Camberra, Australia, 1990
- ICDT90, Third International Conference on Database Theory, Paris, France, 1990
- EDBT90, Second Conference on Extended Database Technology, Venice, Italy, 1990
- MFDBS89, Second Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems, Visegrad, Hungry, 1989
- VLDB89, International Conference on Very Large Databases, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1989
- ICALP89, 16th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Torino, Italy 1989
- ICALP88, 15th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Tampere, Finland, 1988
- MFDBS87, First Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems, Dresden, East-Germany, 1987
- ICDT86, First International Conference on Database Theory, Rome, Italy, 1986
- ICALP85, 12th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Nafplion, Greece, 1985
- Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Antwerp, 2006-2009
- Scientific Advisor for the 'Centrum Technologie voor Gehandicapte Personen', University of Antwerp
- Coordinator Module 'Database Technology and Data Mining', User System Interaction, IPO, Technical University Eindhoven, 1999
- Head of the Faculty Sciences UIA, 1995-1997
- Chairman 'Commissie Informatica, FWO', member 1987-1998
- Organizer FWO-IBM Leerstoel 'Datamining', 1998-1999
- Member 'Onderzoeksraad UIA', 1990-1992 and since 1998
- Member of the 'Commissie Hoogleraren', UIA, since 1996
- Member of the'Jury IBM-Prijs, FWO', since 1984
- Editor of the Journal of Universal Computer Science, an electronic journal, since 1994
- Member Working Group, SOBU (Stichting Onderzoek van de Brabantse Universiteiten), Nederland
- Member of the 'Opvolgingscommissie MODEM'
- Member Editorial Board Journal 'Data & Knowledge Engineering', North Holland
- Member of the 'Visitatie Commissie van het VSNU (Vereniging van de Samenwerkende Nederlandse Universiteiten)
voor visitatie onderwijs in deinformatica, 10 gevisiteerde opleidingen, 1995-1996
- Member of the 'Doorlichtingscommissie van het Hoger Technisch Onderwijs in Vlaanderen', 1994
- Chairman of the 'Contactgroep Informatica, NFWO', 1992-1994
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